Castles & Crusades Bluffside City on the Edge

Welcome to Bluffside: City on the Edge, a boom town boasting the most precious metal in the known world - adamantine. Perched upon high cliffs overlooking the deep waters of Crater Bay Bluffside’s many districts sprawl into the country beyond, climb the cliffs and ride the waters. Here is a city forged on power, where corruption mingles with purity and men contend with one the other for gold or glory, for the greater good or the selfish turn.

From the ancient ruins of Sem La Vah, to the vast Undercity, to the floating port of Sordadon, Bluffside: City on the Edge promises to become the home port for thousands of Adventures.

This sandbox adventure setting is highly portable and includes over 100 places of interest, each of which comes with adventure hooks for the Castle Keeper and player.

This works into any fantasy setting, or stands alone. With eight city districts and maps, Bluffside is the place to bring adventure. Bluffside offers a harvest of new magic items, class adaptations, new races and new spells.

An RPG classic, Bluffiside debuted under Thunderhead Games back in 2001. It took the gaming community by storm, proving one of the most durable sandbox settings ever put to paper.

Join the fray and plunge into this world of Epic Adventure!

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At this time it is out of print but hopefully soon it will be in print again.

Stacie WJune 27, 2019 6:42 am UTC

That would be nice. Thank you for the response.

Joe PJune 20, 2019 6:16 pm UTC

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"This works into any fantasy setting, or stands alone. WITH EIGHT CITY DISTRICTS AND MAPS (emphasis added), Bluffside is the place to bring adventure. Bluffside offers a harvest of new magic items, class adaptations, new races and new spells."

The phrase "8 city districts and maps" implies a map of each district, at minimum. A 3-page PDF that includes a very basic region map, a colorized map with the most generalized layout of the city and its district names (and little else), and a black-and-white Underside map is hardly what is described here.

This is highly disappointing, not to mention misleading. I think I'll be skipping TLG from here on out.

John DJuly 09, 2018 2:15 am UTC

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So... maps. Now there are maps, yes. However, the city map proper has no key so the CK has no idea where the specific locations mentioned in the book actually are.

Nathan TSeptember 13, 2014 12:08 am UTC

Pity there's no maps: I was going to include this in a batch of purchases I was about to make, but if I have to create maps as well, it's not worth the effort or price. TLG don't get a sale...

Timothy BNovember 21, 2015 4:54 am UTC

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I contacted the publisher, and was told the PDF would be updated with maps on 11/22/15.

Jonas SFebruary 14, 2017 8:31 pm UTC

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Well that's more than a year ago now... still no maps.

Timothy BFebruary 16, 2017 3:30 am UTC

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I contacted the publisher again, and the maps were updated today (2/15/2017).

Marco VJuly 21, 2014 4:13 pm UTC

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Without the map-pack there are no district-maps within the book???

Sylvain BJuly 24, 2014 5:10 pm UTC

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There are currently no maps whatsoever in the pdf that I have purchased and it's not the first time that I got a map-less product from TLG...

Marco VJuly 28, 2014 3:40 pm UTC

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Then thanks alot, that's a clear no-buy for me ...

... it's one case, if you CAN buy some additional great-grand-colored maps, but I definitely expect some solid maps to already come with the product in question ... otherwise you simply cannot appropriately use a city-supplement like that

Timothy BNovember 21, 2015 4:54 am UTC

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I contacted the publisher, and was told the PDF would be updated with maps on 11/22/15.

Timothy BFebruary 16, 2017 3:30 am UTC

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The maps were updated today (2/15/2017).

Sylvain BMarch 07, 2014 5:58 am UTC

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The product's description says "with eight city districts and maps" but there are no maps to be found. I am aware that the maps are also sold separately but it is stated that they should be found in the book. This is hopefully an oversight as I would expect them to be provided for this price...

Timothy BNovember 21, 2015 4:54 am UTC

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I contacted the publisher, and was told the PDF would be updated with maps on 11/22/15.

I was surprised by the amount of information packed inside this supplement. Bluffside, the surrounding area, and the underworld beneath it are each detailed, along with history, power structures, and religion -- I expected that. Seven black and white [...]

I was very disappointed in getting a map-less PDF when I purchased this product months ago. I patiently waited before posting this review, hoping for a swift(er) update as the product's description clearly states that "eight city districts and ma [...]

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